Quotes about Business Criticism

Barbara Corcoran

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

Bob McDonnell

I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.

Jamie Dimon

The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

Mitt Romney

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

Stephen Ambrose

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Jamie Dimon

I have gotten disturbed at... some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I think it's very counter-productive.

Rand Paul

What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Ralph Nader is the single most effective antagonist of American business.

While Powell intended the statement as an insult, Nader and most of the consumer movement considered it a profound compliment. The result was that the statement was quoted frequently.

Chuck Fleischmann

Having no experience in running a business, President Obama just doesn't get it. In fact, he fights against it. Just recently, he said, 'If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'

Walter E. Williams

Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target.... Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services..... unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and keep it in business.

Henry Hazlitt

The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free market to argument to the enemy, they fail to defend themselves adequately even when attacked.

Bill Maher

When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away!...we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!!

Rush Limbaugh

Government's the primary source of prosperity for you, if you're on the left. And if you believe that business exists to kill you, if you believe that business exists to poison you, then government is a source of prosperity for you.

Ludwig von Mises

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

One important observation of this quotation is the pejorative language Mises used to describe “Union Bosses” as opposed to “Union Leaders.” There were indeed a few Union “Bosses” but most unions had popularly elected leaders. It is similar to the left wing critic who refers to Corporate Executives as “Greedy Monopolists.” A few are but most are not. Historically, in the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, the conservatives tended to be much better at pejorative language and used it more frequently and uniformly than the liberals who tended to be better in the last part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Jamie Dimon

People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time.

Arnold Palmer

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.

Rush Limbaugh

The Democrats want corporations to shut down and move, because it allows them to tell you how rotten and mean corporations are.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama administration didn't have one person who had ever worked in business. Not one Obama cabinet member had ever seriously had a job, run a company, met a payroll in the American economy. And, as such, no way of understanding how business is done, from negotiations to any other aspect of it. In fact, people in Obama's cabinet were arrogant and condescending and looking down on those people as a bunch of shysters and a bunch of cheats and people that kill their customers and they're destroying the planet.

Ricky Gervais

To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

James Jebbia

I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really shouldn't be here.

Business Criticism Quotes